Star Trek: Classic or Dud?

i regret this

This is why you don't throw a gauntlet down in my presence, u see.

Disco, Lower Decks cartoon, and Picard summary from SDCC: https://io9.gizmodo.com/there-was-almost-too-much-news-at-the-star-trek-comic-c-1836392106

Lower Decks sounds a little like Red Shirts: The Animated Series.

Trailer breakdown, if you're inclined:

https://io9.gizmodo.com/breaking-down-the-familiar-faces-and-new-reveals-of-the-1836608419

Mild spoiler but you won't believe how they have a 'so-and-so days since an accident' workplace humor style joke in here.

just finished the dvd box of TOS and am watching the little extras on the last disk

didn't know this about Scotty: Landed on Juno Beach on D-Day as a member of the Royal Canadian Artillery... He was hit by four bullets to the leg, his middle finger of his right hand was shot off, and a bullet struck his chest. His life was saved when that hit a silver cigarette case which had been given to him by his brother.

meanwhile, george takai was in an american internment camp.

Doohan’s son posted a nice thread about this on the anniversary this year.

Artillery Lt. Doohan was one of 14,000 Canadian soldiers who stormed the beach. He once said they were more afraid of drowning than the actual battle. He led his men across an anti-tank mine field. Fortunately none exploded as the men weren’t heavy enough to activate them... pic.twitter.com/rOki0O0cuQ

— Chris Doohan (@ChrisDoohan) June 6, 2019

Some have asked if Dad visited Normandy after #DDay. He made a trip back in 1984...a very emotional day. pic.twitter.com/v4N2IwA7ow

— Chris Doohan (@ChrisDoohan) June 7, 2019

I just rewatched Star Trek VI, and utterly forgot the arc of Kim Cattrall's role.

Picard's getting most of the hype right now, but I'm also really looking forward to Lower Decks!

on risa:

https://www.startrek.com/news/star-trek-risa-conversation-daniel-ortberg-colette-arrand

RIP Odo :(

We are deeply saddened to report the passing of René Auberjonois. #StarTrek #StarTrekFamily https://t.co/ySVTLSERIA

— Star Trek (@StarTrek) December 8, 2019

OMG D:

I thought this revive would be something fun and instead this. T_T

Gammons already boycotting the new show

Sir Patrick Stewart Says New ‘Star Trek’ Series Will Take On Trump, Brexit https://t.co/fIpuZ2TRpg pic.twitter.com/KMQ2OfIaMz

— The Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) January 13, 2020

I hope they give it the classic Rodenberry nuance.

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I love it when they visited they planet McConaughey

Good timing by the Horror Channel to run this Star Trek episode about a mysterious illness running rampant on the Enterprise - spread by touch. I think we could all do with one of these suits Spock is wearing.

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Some dispensible red shirt brings it on to the Enterprise by taking his glove off to scratch his nose :-O

did he eat a space bat while he was on the planet

That I don't know, but Nurse Chappell is in love with Mr. Spock :-O

How's she going to explain that one in the morning? "I must have had my beer goggles on last night."

who doesn't love a distant, emotionally unavailable man

Half man.

Spock blubbing like a child, pull yourself together half man!

Half amazing

Wow, this is the actual episode where Scotty says, "I canna change the laws of physics!"

greatest not-yet-living scotsman

Kirk's got it now - or is he just acting? 'Just' acting, it's Shatner, LOL.

McCoy and Scotty the unlikely heroes as Spock went through some sort of Oedipal crisis and Kirk lost it for all of two (very intense) minutes.

every kirk minute is an intense minute

that rattle music cue signifying infection would be useful rn

every kirk minute is an intense minute

just took a stroll through this thread and yikes, the ilx trek discourse was quite a bit less enlightened back in 2001...

Surely:

the ilx trek discourse was quite a bit less enlightened back in 2001...

Currently showing the episode which introduced the character of Khan - which I'd never seen before, in fact there's been a few I hadn't seen before, which surprises me. So it was news to me that:

1. Khan is from 20th century Earth.

2. He was involved in a 'eugenics war' on Earth in... 1993!

3. He's Indian - which explains the name Khan, I thought it was just LOL Star Trek writers using a name that sounded like a 'science fiction' name. He is, however, described as Sikh when Khan is a Muslim name.

All of which goes to prove I am no Trekkie, I suppose.

Plus what a fucking howler of a blunder by Kirk at the end of the episode.

An Indian played by a Mexican! Close enough for 1960s TV I guess.

a mysterious illness running rampant on the Enterprise

actually 22% of all star trek episodes across all series have infection plots

3. He's Indian - which explains the name Khan, I thought it was just LOL Star Trek writers using a name that sounded like a 'science fiction' name. He is, however, described as Sikh when Khan is a Muslim name.

The synopsis for this morning's Star Trek episode:

"McCoy becomes deranged and changes the past. Can guest star Joan Collins help?"

Get your popcorn out.

https://www.treknews.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/city-on-the-edge-of-forever-07.jpg

IIRC he was named after Gene Roddenberry's old army pal or something like that?

Kim Noonien Singh, Roddenberry used the name in an attempt to get in touch with him, which obviously failed as he tried again in TNG with Noonien Soong.

The synopsis for this morning's Star Trek episode:

"McCoy becomes deranged and changes the past. Can guest star Joan Collins help?"

Get your popcorn out.

Considered to be possibly the best episode of the original series.

Not according to Harlan Ellison

are they going to wrap around to the beginning?

(oh, that's only the end of TOS series 1, i thought it was the end of the whole thing)